I put on make up today to take a selfie I’m starting to look better in my living room Than I do in real life I wrote this poem using Siri while driving on the freeway In my car I’m playing my favorite song The melody made me feel full like I was in … More #liveauthentic
I want to communicate about something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently- I see so much written about the influence of the media upon female body image- but I feel there is another far more destructive force at work- which is the culture we have created ourselves. I have heard so many women in … More Body Image: Stop Blaming the Media, It Starts With You…
I never even know where to begin… It usually starts when I find a dress while I’m out thrifting… this girl had so many wonderful details- a lace collar that I knew would come in handy, beautiful floral pattern, and a button up bodice that was just to die for. It started out with a … More Dress Alchemy: The Louisiana Garden Dress
If you travel past the sun and light-years back in time through whispers of a past so haunting it chills you, you will meet a queen. She was a great beauty, tall enough to look upon many worlds, yet not so large that she could not understand the hearts of those she lead and served. … More Queen Antonite
Once Upon a time I had this bathrobe… And I cut it here and there… You could say it took a trip…to a whole new life… And sometimes my dresses tell me stories… Here is the story this dress told me… Veronica had come from a small town in the southern Midwest… The name isn’t … More Bathrobe Revamp: The Tattered Housewife Dress and the story it told me…
I’ve got a Wolverine Heart- you know- that crazy metal alloy adamantium shit, bursting out of my hands, razor sharp and bleeding every time… Warrior heart- runs out screaming into the battlefield of life- open and huge, chronically naive, loving things it shouldn’t love, too big, too brave, all in, all the time, so excited, … More Wolverine Heart
Tonight as I stepped into the twilight of my unmowed and clover filled front yard, I thought to myself, “You know everyone seems to be finding four leaf clovers these days- I think I would like to find one too…” and within 5 seconds I looked down and there it was- the first four leaf … More Luck is not something you get…
I don’t like to wish because it feels like hoping and I don’t like to hope because I only want what I want Not those childish whispers of whimsy and fleeting possibilities * My power is so strong it cuts me like a knife yet it’s so far away I fear I’ll have to go … More it all fell apart but that’s over now…
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